Milliblog Weeklies – India’s only multilingual, weekly new music playlist. Week 245: YouTube | Spotify A bumper 20 songs this week, given last week’s no show. All the songs are available on both playlists. Ta Ra Ta Ra Ta – Do Aur Do Pyaar (Subhajit Mukherjee) – Hindi: I have already listed 2 songs from this film’s soundtrack in earlier Weeklies (The Local Train’s Tu Hai Kahaan and Lost Stories’ Jazbaati Hai Dil), but I did expect more from the 7-song soundtrack. The only other song I liked was Subhajit’s Ta Ra Ta Ra Ta, with its gently lilting melody and Vishal Dadlani sounding totally unlike ..read more

Milliblog Weeklies – India’s only multilingual, weekly new music playlist. Week 244: YouTube | Spotify 15 songs this week. Two songs from the Telugu soundtrack, Om Bheem Bush are inside a YouTube jukebox and are available as singles only via YouTube Music/Premium. So, they are not part of the YouTube playlist but are present in the Spotify playlist. Ranga Ranga – Maidaan (A R Rahman) – Hindi/Telugu: Rahman seems to be having a really good time with this film’s soundtrack! After the first 2 songs, this one stands out too, with its vibrant, pulsating tune that Vaishali Samant handles brilliantl ..read more

Milliblog Weeklies – India’s only multilingual, weekly new music playlist. Week 242: YouTube | Spotify Back after another musical weak week’s break 14 songs this week, and the Spotify playlist is missing only one song – the Kannada song from UI The Movie. It’s a surprise that Lahari Music hasn’t yet listed the song on Spotify! Baby Bring It On – Madgaon Express (Ajay-Atul) – Hindi: Ajay-Atul recreate their own 2016 Marathi number by the same name from the film ‘Jaundya Na Balasaheb’, but after hearing the superior Marathi original, the Hindi version sounds a bit less interesting. It is appro ..read more

Milliblog Weeklies – India’s only multilingual, weekly new music playlist. Week 241: YouTube | Spotify Back after a week’s break and what a bumper playlist it is, this weekend! 17 songs, and all songs are available on both playlists. Ishq Mitaye – Amar Singh Chamkila (A R Rahman) – Punjabi/Hindi: There’s an almost obvious nod to Rockstar’s Sheher Mein (also the Mohit Chauhan connection) in this song. And I am amazed at the fact that neither does Imtiaz Ali get his hero-composer (Diljit Dosanjh) to compose for the film, nor A R Rahman get the film’s hero-singer to sing for this song! But this ..read more

Milliblog Weeklies – India’s only multilingual, weekly new music playlist. Week 240: YouTube | Spotify 10 songs this week. Only one is missing in the Spotify playlist – the new Peshawar Zalmi anthem, Zalmi Yama. Sajni, Dheeme Dheeme – Laapataa Ladies (Ram Sampath) – Hindi: Arijit sounds a bit different in Sajni, but as always, he’s a terrific asset to any song. And a dreamy melody like this is his usual backyard. Led by a gentle guitar backdrop, the tune works effortlessly! Shreya Ghoshal hits it out of the park in Dheeme Dheeme! Ram’s tune is a throwback to the older melodic style and Shreya ..read more

Milliblog Weeklies – India’s only multilingual, weekly new music playlist. Week 239: YouTube | Spotify Le Le Pangey – Dange (Sanjith Hegde) – Hindi: A pop single last week and a film song this week – Sanjith Hegde seems to be truly going places, and definitely beyond his Karnataka roots! I’m mighty impressed with his music composition skills – he seems almost like an Arijit Singh in terms of the mix of both skills, singing and composing. Le Le Pangey is a solid track – punchy, catchy, an excellent mix of his solo phrases and the ebullient chorus, and his signature soaring falsetto! The Tamil ..read more

Milliblog Weeklies – India’s only multilingual, weekly new music playlist. Week 238: YouTube | Spotify 14 songs this week and all the songs are available on both YouTube and Spotify. There are just 3 film songs out of the 14 and the sheer range of non-film music in this week’s playlist is astounding! Title song – Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya (Raghav & Tanishk Bagchi) – Hindi: Tanishk spruces up Canadian-Indian singer Raghav’s 20-year-old song from his debut album ‘Storyteller’ (2004) and concocts a spritely new version, in his signature style. It’s good that they got Raghav to sing the ..read more

Milliblog Weeklies – India’s only multilingual, weekly new music playlist. Week 237: YouTube | Spotify 9 songs this week. The song from Blue Star isn’t available on Spotify yet, surprisingly! The rest of the songs are available on both YouTube and Spotify playlists. Chor – Justh (Hindi/Indipop): Oh wow, what a captivating song! The song’s poignant, philosophical lyrics and the highly involved way Justh sings reminded me of when Rabbi Shergill entered the music scene with Bulla Ki Jaana in 2004. As Justh amps up the music, the song takes on anthemic proportions when it ends with ‘Karde mujhe A ..read more

Milliblog Weeklies – India’s only multilingual, weekly new music playlist. Week 236: YouTube | Spotify Laal Peeli Akhiyaan – Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya (Tanishk Bagchi) – Hindi: Tanishk uses (and the music video credits the hook) the famous Rajasthani folk song, ‘Jad Dekhu Banna Ri Lal Pili Akhiyan’ as his base for a hugely energetic remix of sorts. Romy’s singing and the punchy music keep the song consistently entertaining. Raat Akeli Thi – Merry Christmas (Pritam) – Hindi: The way the song opens, it felt like Agent Vinod’s ‘Raabta’ took the road not taken (sorry, Robert Frost), but Pr ..read more

Milliblog Weeklies – India’s only multilingual, weekly new music playlist. Week 235: YouTube | Spotify Back to the grind – another year, another Weeklies playlist! Considering the last Weeklies was on November 26th and there were very few songs all through December (not worth making a half-decent playlist of about 8-10 odd songs), there was some backlog from late November and December 2023. I did consider most of them while making my 2023 annual round-up barring ones that came after mid-December. In this Weeklies, all the songs are available on YouTube, while the Spotify playlist is missing on ..read more